L♡ve Me

Love Is War

3rd Person POV

Steve continued ranting about Tony in circles on the living room. "Seriously, he's such a kid! Telling me like I'm an old grandpa and being like a party pooper or whatever. Wait, did he called me party pooper? No, yeah I think so. But then....."

He continued blabbing about Tony, while Clint and Thor already fell asleep. Natasha was the only one up.

Natasha sighed, "OK." She interrupted, "You boys need to learn a lesson."

"But Nat-" She shush Steve off.

"Look, maybe he needs a little time to adjust?" Natasha said.

"Time to adjust?" He asked.

"Yeah, well, give him some space first and if you think he's free, you can go approach him and talk. Easy, right?" She explained.

Steve took time to understand but he nodded after a minute. "Yeah..I guess I was rushing it a bit for him."

"Remember, tip number 1. Don't rush things up, or else it'll just lead to worst." Natasha patted his back, "Goodnight." She walked in to her room.

"Goodnight.." Steve then sat on the couch. "What should I do..?"

•••

"So I tested it, and it seems to work but it also seems to piss me off." Tony sighed as he sat on the floor. He was on his lab for hours now and it's 4 am in the morning, time sure flies so fast.

He also ranted about Steve on his lab, over and over again, Jarvis is his only audience though.

"Sir." Jarvis interrupted.

"WHAT?" Tony asked in a frustrated tone.

"Would you like to call Ms. Potts for a comfort? "

"Ms. Potts?...Oh, Pepper! Yeah, sure, go call her right away."

Jarvis proceeded to call the assisstant. It rang for a minute or two but then she picked up. "Ugh..Tony?" Pepper appeared on the big screen while she rubs her eyes.

"Pepper! It's so nice to see you again!" Tony greeted her.

"Tony..IT'S 4 AM IN THE MORNING." She almost yelled.

Tony laughed nervously, "You see..I wanted to talk to you about something." He looks down.

"Seriously? In the middle of my beauty sleep?"

"Please, Pepps? It's really urgent, and I needed someone to talk to. I'm lonely here down my lab..and my only friend here to listen is Jarvis."

Pepper sighed, maybe he does need her right now. "Ok, ok..What did you want to talk about?" She said in a sleepy tone.

"I-It's about Steve.."

"Yeah, what about him?"

"Ok, so. I've thought about something dumb and-" Tony was cut off by Pepper.

"Almost all you do is dumb."

"Would you just listen to me for a second?" Tony sighed and Pepper got quiet.

"So then, I thought about changing back to my old personality. The arrogant one, then maybe if I do that, I would be able to ignore Steve again and my feelings would fade away for him. But, I never thought it was a bad idea until I tried it.." He frowned.

"Why? What happened?" Pepper continued to listen.

"It's just..I saw him walking down to my lab, he actually visited me here earlier but it came out rough. He said he wanted to check me out and kinda hang-out with me for a while, but I said I was busy even though I really wanted to be with him. So, I began saying stupid things to him, and we began to challenge each other until we're back to hating one another again."

"Oh.." Pepper said.

"I know.." Tony looked at her, "What am I gonna do?"

"Why not just apologize to him? I bet everything will be fine if you do that." She shrugged.

"Me? Apologize? No. No way. Not a single chance." Tony scoffed.

"Well, if that's what you want then I'll go to sleep now. Goodnight." Pepper suddenly hang up.

Tony groaned, frustrated again.

Stupid Rogers. Stupid. Stupid. SO STUPID.

He began mumbling things again, he hasn't continued working these past few hours, thinking and regretting of what he have done. "Goddamn it. Do I really need to say sorry?"

"I also suggest that sir."

"No, Stop it Jarvis."

•••

It was a peaceful morning again, or..at least?

"Nooo! Give me back my property!" Clint begged.

"THIS IS MY HOUSE NOW!" Thor laughed proudly.

They were actually playing Monopoly because of boredom. No crimes doesn't mean everyday work out, it's ok to have fun too.

Bruce laughed along with them while he watched the game.

"Hey." Steve greeted them a good morning, he had just finish taking his training. "What are you guys doing?" He chuckled.

"We're playing..uh, what was it called again?" Thor scratches his hair.

"It's Monopoly." Bruce answered.

"Hey! That's cheating!" Clint suddenly yelled.

"That is not!" Thor yelled with him too.

Steve placed a soft chuckle, until his mood was destroyed by a certain person who just walked in.

"Morning." Tony greeted all of them, except Steve.

The soldier glared at him, but then scoffed and looks away, pretending Tony wasn't even there.

"Goodmorning, boys." Natasha suddenly came in, just in time.

"Morning, Nat." Both Steve and Tony greeted her in chorus.

The team looked at the both of them.

"Um..?" Bruce interrupted. "Is there something I should know?"

"I prefer NOT to tell." Tony glared at Steve.

"Oh yeah?" Steve did the same.

"Yeah." Tony responded.

"Yeah?" Steve replied.

"YEAH."

There was a tense air between them, that the team couldn't explain.

"AHEM." Natasha cleared her throat in between them. "Can you guys just please-"

"NO. He was the one who started it" Tony pointed at Steve.

"EXCUSE ME. You started all of it!" Steve answered him.

"OK! OK! STOP." Natasha blocked both their mouths using her hands. While Bruce, Clint and Thor were just sitting there quiet and watching them.

"Would you please both shut up? Please. Jesus, you two are such annoying couples." She then removed her hands.

Annoying Couples.

Steve and Tony both blushed at the thought. But they both looked away, not wanting to think of it like that.